Rilo Kiley Almost Finished Archival Project, Not Releasing Album of New Material

In July of last year, Rilo Kiley guitarist Blake Sennett gave an interview with Spinner making a strong suggestion that the band's 2007 record Under the Blacklight, was likely their last. "I just felt like there was a lot of deception, disloyalty, greed and things I don't really want to submit myself to," he said. But he did mention that the group was working on "a two-disc set of 40 songs, or something," which could be "more considered like our last release, to me."

Yesterday, the band posted on Facebook, "Record is almost finished, and artwork is nearly done. Going to need your help! More to come." This caused many to get excited that a new Rilo Kiley album is on the horizon. But that's not the case. We've confirmed that the post was indeed referring to that archival project Sennett hinted at in 2011.

In an interview last year, frontwoman Jenny Lewis said the release is "a collection of B-sides," "just stuff that has been lying around for many, many years." She said the band was "getting a bunch of songs together and old photographs and sifting through the past."